By Charissa ~  T oday is day one of my actually looking into other Christians who are now no longer believers. There are still so many questions that I have, and I am actually giving myself a headache and getting physically ill over the thought that all that I believe is just indoctrination, and even the cross was a crutch? I am not an ex-Christian right now, but floating pretty close to that point. I guess I don't actually know where I am... Religion is just filled with gaping holes, and no man (or woman) can explain anything to me. It seems like when we just don't find an answer that fits in, we move on to the next denomination. Which is complete bullcrappypoo, (oh I can swear now?!) There must be an absolute truth , if there is an absolute God, surely He who is all powerful would not let this happen? Christians too (and I include myself in this judgment) are the biggest fakes, if we are supposedly new creatures why then am I still the same? I think my pastor is goin...

By  Candace ~ M y journey of unshackling the mental chains of christianity was long and emotional. As an African American female my perspective is different when it comes to Christianity. I grew up in an ultra conservative mostly white Pentecostal Church . Listening to non Christian music or dancing was forbidden! It was very burdensome considering that music and dancing plays a central role in black culture. This was robbed from me in the church! My parents (my mother and step father) didn't allow me to go to school dances very much. The only dances I went to was the ROTC ball and Prom. The music in the church was HORRIBLE! The music was monotonous, emotionless,dry, and lacked rhythm. If I was going to be in church I would have felt a little better if the music sounded good at least! At times I felt like I was going to die listening to the music. We had to sing from hymn books and the people in the choir didn't sing that well. Being an ex christian I once thought...

By FinallySunny ~ A fter a tough childhood and tougher young adulthood I turned to god. Image by jcoterhals via Flickr As a child religion was not forced on me, my Mom didn't believe in that. I was free to make my own choices concerning beliefs and religion. As a young adult is where I fell into it. I had been widowed and was very vulnerable. I was left with two young children. (Can you all see where this is going?) In enters "Mr. Wonderful/Concerned." He just happened to be my insurance agent who was familiar with the recent passing of my young husband. He was concerned for me and my girls and asked if we went to church. We began dating and he said he would be "serious" with no woman that did not "know god." I became a xtian on a website for a religious radio station in Houston Texas . All I had to "do" was say this, think that and then go and tell someone. It felt completely cheesy, but I did so. I, of course, informed th...

By Ras ~ W ell now, this may not sound like a testimonial but nevertheless I want to give out, anyway Image via Wikipedia I was born, baptised and raised in a Christian background. It was because of my mother, that I was brought in this sort of upbringing. I went to nearly every sermon on Sundays and Wednesday nights, and always got taught lessons through Bible scripture. But everyone has a dark side... and of all my 'now' former-Christian family (parents have left, due to divorce and church-brought slander), I had the biggest one of them all. I may have learned a lot of interesting facts about Y'shua (the original name for Jesus) and all his works, but I was never interested in the 66 books and thus I was never interested in 'Him' in-depth. Another factor of the dark side was that I was interested in other things rather than Yahweh. I wanted to do a lot of things, because of founded it quite boring and dull. Christian music? bloody words, like Holy Holy Hol...

By Vyckie @ No Longer Quivering ~ I t had already been the longest Thursday of my life ~ way too much to do, not nearly enough time to do it in, constant interruptions, crisis & drama from the kids, the phone, my email inbox ~ all of this conspired to distract me from getting the bills paid ~ a job which I'd procrastinated on much too long. "Enough!" I told myself ~ "If I don't get this finished, I'll be drowning in late fees and disconnect notices." I sent the kids to their rooms, shut off the ringer on my cell phone, and closed all but one window on the computer so that I could focus, balance the checkbook, and finally pay the darned bills! The doorbell rang. Thinking it was one of the kids' friends, I jumped up quickly to shoo the visitor away before all the kids came streaming out of their rooms and chaos erupted again. "Hello, Vyckie" ~ it was Al, my old friend from bible college ~ whom I hadn't seen in ages. He to...

By Christy ~ I get so frustrated when I'm told I'm wrong for believing the way I do by someone who has never looked at the other side. How can one make a judgment unless they've actually considered ALL the facts? I would think if they actually looked at the facts they might be humbled a little bit. Image by movimente via Flickr I left the Christian faith only after MUCH consideration and research. I didn't just wake up one day and say enough of this bullshit -- I thought it out carefully. I read several books, did countless research and looked at all the options. I only disclosed that I was no longer a Christian out of necessity. Trust me, I did not want to stir the pot, but it happened, and now I'm left with two brothers that won't speak to me anymore (how scriptural and Jesus-like is that?!), and my mother telling me I'm wrong and acting like I'm breaking her heart. Please, don't tell me I'm wrong based on what the bible says -- I don...

By Donat Gniezdzinski ~  Here is the letter I have written to my friend Jerry: H i Jerry, A lot of changes in the way I perceive the world and I am much happier now. All my life experiences with regards to 'church life' or even simply 'my life' or life in general start making perfect sense if one acknowledges a simple fact: life, as it goes, doesn't contain any unnatural events. Everything in life is natural, so there is nothing supernatural or paranormal. And it simply comes from observation. And a bit of thinking. People tend to believe in weird things, like demons or angels or try to work out 'rules of life', which often end up as belief in superstition, or invent different gods and try to spread faith in them. You and me, we both fell prey to these invented believes, which were rooted in Judaism, in the OT and then later in the NT, which was based on hearsay and contain stories, which never took place. We fell prey to believing that there is ...

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (b.1872 – d.1970) was a British philosopher , logician , essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy . His most influential contributions include his defense of logicism (the view that mathematics is in some important sense reducible to logic), his refining of the predicate calculus introduced by Gottlob Frege (which still forms the basis of most contemporary logic), his defense of neutral monism (the view that the world consists of just one type of substance that is neither exclusively mental nor exclusively physical), and his theories of definite descriptions and logical atomism. Along with G.E. Moore , Russell is generally recognized as one of the founders of modern analytic philosophy. Along with Kurt Gödel , he is regularly credited with being one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century. ref.: LINK

By The Truth Seeker ~ F or those of you who are too young to remember, back in the fifties there was a book, radio series, and Movie called “ I was a Communist for the FBI ”. Well, “I Was an Apologist for the RCC ( Roman Catholic Church ) and it’s just about as weird as the book and movie about being a communist for the FBI . The first 23 years of my life were spent as a Southern Baptist. As I look back on those years now, I see that I just coasted along not committing to much of anything. I wasn’t an evangelical or a fundamentalist (come to think of it, maybe I was); I was just a run of the mill Baptist, but I knew that the Baptist Church had some weird rules. I spent 8 years in a Baptist military school and there I learned most of what I know about the military, discipline, orderliness, and religion. Every day of the week we went to a chapel service at mid-day and went to church twice on Sunday and on Wednesday night. I knew that we couldn’t smoke, drink, gamble, have sex,a...

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By ex-Pastor Dan ~ CHAPTER 4 VIET NAM : THE LONGEST YEAR OF MY LIFE PART 2 – SAINTS & SINNERS A s soon as the doors opened and I walked into the chapel, I once again felt at peace. There was a familiarity in entering a church building. Even though I had never been inside of the Can Tho Army Airfield Chapel, immediately it felt like home. If was empty and quiet with simple wooden pews and an old upright piano standing proudly on the right side of the raised platform. There was a utilitarian pulpit at the center with a table directly behind for holding the sacraments which were used during Catholic Mass . Now, since no Mass was planned until the next morning, the table held only a silver crucifix. It was the largest one I had ever seen; three feet tall and 4 inches wide. Seeing Jesus, dead on the cross, made me feel sad. We Protestants never had Jesus still hanging on our crosses. “We serve a RISEN LORD!” Brother Mac would exclaim. “To the Catholics, Jesus is still o...